iPhone Codesign object file format invalid or unsuitable

iphone codesign
Mat picture Mat · Jan 30, 2011 · Viewed 36.5k times · Source

I accidentally deleted my target in xcode.

so i created a new one with the exact same name. in the target settings i again selected the proper codesigning identity

but now i can't compile for the device anymore. as soon as i want to build, i get:

CodeSign build/Release-iphoneos/myApp.app
....somestuff....
/Volumes/XCodeProj/myApp/build/Release-iphoneos/myApp.app: object file format invalid or unsuitable
Connad /usr/bin/codesign failed with exit code 1

I already tried to clean targets. what could cause this problem and how to solve it?

Answer

Ed McManus picture Ed McManus · Jul 21, 2011

May also be an issue with your install. Symlinking to the latest codesign_allocate cleared up the issue in my case:

sudo mv /usr/bin/codesign_allocate /usr/bin/codesign_allocate_old
sudo ln -s /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/codesign_allocate /usr/bin

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